BEELZEBOB
Well-Known Member
i had a minor outbreak in my teenyweeny tank.
i bought a lettuce nudi. he did a great job. it was almost non existant.
then, my freggin acans munched the lil guy who dissolved into my tank.
even w/ an immediate WC and 48hrs running carbon, BYPROSIS TOOK OVER MY TANK!!!!!
this is sooooooo embarrasing. no longer can i be stuck up and proud that my first ever reeftank has been running fine, w/ no issues or problems...
this sux. so ive been dooing research on the bumpin magneisium technique and this is what ive got.
okay, so apparently when dosing mag, the best supplement is Kent Marine Tech M
apparently some people whom were treating byprosis by rasing mag with any other type of mag supplement didnt have the same, if any, success that those who used Tech M did.
Randy Holmes Farley brough up that there seems to be a extra chemical (X) in tech M that may not be present in any other mag supplement that can be attributed to the death of byprosis.
Farley says this technique scetches him out, because if what kills the byprosis is REALLY CHEMICAL X, we have no idea what the **** it is, there for, no way to test and measure X.
now one side thread on RC is where Randy brought this up, and honestly its the only place that ive seen that only tech m works with this technique.
so i grabbed a bottle of tech m ($14.99 and a mag test kit $21.99) yesterday
ive read that both high dosing, and turning off the flow for a minute and shootin the mag supplement at the base of the byprosis works.
the ranges ive heard discussed have been anywhere from 1500-2200ppm. and when its gone maintaining at least 1300ppm.
im going to just dose to raise to about 1500-1800ppm through this week.
then if need be i will target dose directly.
right now my mag is about 1280-1320ppm
so adding 18 ml of Kent Marine Tech M (1ml per gallon) sopposedly (by the bottle's instruction) will boost my Mag by 18.sumthin ppm.
soooooo on that note, trying to not raise my mag more than 100ppm, per day i plan on adding 90 ml of kent mag per dose, which should bump me 90ppm per day.
i added 18ml at lunch.
im going to do a 2 gallon WC tonight, and add another 70-80 ml of Tech M post WC.
instead of dosing daily, do y'all think i should dose every other day?
90ml of anything kinda freaks me out... maybe ill do 45ml every day........
this is sooo embarrasing, but, here it is.
i bought a lettuce nudi. he did a great job. it was almost non existant.
then, my freggin acans munched the lil guy who dissolved into my tank.
even w/ an immediate WC and 48hrs running carbon, BYPROSIS TOOK OVER MY TANK!!!!!
this is sooooooo embarrasing. no longer can i be stuck up and proud that my first ever reeftank has been running fine, w/ no issues or problems...
this sux. so ive been dooing research on the bumpin magneisium technique and this is what ive got.
okay, so apparently when dosing mag, the best supplement is Kent Marine Tech M
apparently some people whom were treating byprosis by rasing mag with any other type of mag supplement didnt have the same, if any, success that those who used Tech M did.
Randy Holmes Farley brough up that there seems to be a extra chemical (X) in tech M that may not be present in any other mag supplement that can be attributed to the death of byprosis.
Farley says this technique scetches him out, because if what kills the byprosis is REALLY CHEMICAL X, we have no idea what the **** it is, there for, no way to test and measure X.
now one side thread on RC is where Randy brought this up, and honestly its the only place that ive seen that only tech m works with this technique.
so i grabbed a bottle of tech m ($14.99 and a mag test kit $21.99) yesterday
ive read that both high dosing, and turning off the flow for a minute and shootin the mag supplement at the base of the byprosis works.
the ranges ive heard discussed have been anywhere from 1500-2200ppm. and when its gone maintaining at least 1300ppm.
im going to just dose to raise to about 1500-1800ppm through this week.
then if need be i will target dose directly.
right now my mag is about 1280-1320ppm
so adding 18 ml of Kent Marine Tech M (1ml per gallon) sopposedly (by the bottle's instruction) will boost my Mag by 18.sumthin ppm.
soooooo on that note, trying to not raise my mag more than 100ppm, per day i plan on adding 90 ml of kent mag per dose, which should bump me 90ppm per day.
i added 18ml at lunch.
im going to do a 2 gallon WC tonight, and add another 70-80 ml of Tech M post WC.
instead of dosing daily, do y'all think i should dose every other day?
90ml of anything kinda freaks me out... maybe ill do 45ml every day........
this is sooo embarrasing, but, here it is.